Quotes by kurt vonnegut

“And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.”

“And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by o...”

“And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.”

“I identified a basic mistake my parents had made about life: They thought that it would be very wrong if anybody ever laughed at them.”

“And Castle nodded sagely. 'So this is a picture of the meaninglessness of it all! I couldn't agree ”

“Theology: (15) Somebody made everything for some reason.”

“People talk a lot about all the homosexuals there are to see in Greenwich Village, but it was all the neuters that caught my eye that day. These were my people -- as used as I was to wanting love f...”

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”

“I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.”

“The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.”

“I became a so-called science fiction writer when someone decreed that I was a science fiction writer. I did not want to be classified as one, so I wondered in what way I'd offended that I would not...”

“Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.”

“What an optimistic animal man is!" said Rumfoord rosily. "Imagine expecting the species to last for ten million more years - as though people were as well-developed as turtles!" He shrugged. "Well ...”

“I was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with”

“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American ...”

“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from the things she found in gift shops.”

“Jesus--if Kilgore Trout could only write!" Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good.”

“Pretty, was she?""Pretty?" he echoed. "Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it'll be her wings and not her face that'll make my mouth fall open. I've already...”

“And, if you'll investigate the history of science, my dear boy, I think you'll find that most of the really big ideas have come from intelligent playfulness. All the sober, thin-lipped concentratio...”

“That's what is was to be young to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.”